Contains papers from an August 1999 conference on fracture mechanics analysis, design and analysis of piping and components, fitness for service and life evaluation, and design analysis of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and components. Specific areas of investigation include prediction of creep failure in notched tubes using continuum damage mechanics, evaluation of plastic strain concentration in bellows, innovations in delayed coking coke drum design, buckling of a toroidal shell using the differential quadrature method, and a new energetic approach to modeling ductile tearing for real components. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
